Treefingers
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| Song by Radiohead | ||
| from the album Kid A | ||
| Released | October 2, 2000 | |
| Recorded | January 1999 – April 2000 | |
| Genre | Ambient music, Post-rock | |
| Length | 3:42 | |
| Label | EMI Parlophone KIDA1 Capitol |
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| Producer(s) | Nigel Godrich and Radiohead | |
| Kid A track listing | ||
| "How to Disappear Completely" (4) |
"Treefingers" (5) |
"Optimistic" (6) |
"Treefingers" is the fifth track on the 2000 album Kid A by the band Radiohead. It is one of the band's few instrumental-only songs, and the first one to appear on one of their full-length albums (as opposed to EPs or singles). It is one of the few songs that the band has never performed live.
One may think that synthesizers were used to create the languid texture, but, as Ed O'Brien pointed out in an interview, it was all played on guitar. Thom Yorke recorded O'Brien playing chords for about 10 minutes, and then manipulated the recording using a sampler. The song has been seen to lack a melody and song structure, but radiates a feeling of warmth and quiet compared to other more emotional tracks on the album.
The track has been compared frequently to the works of Brian Eno in the late 1970s and 1980s. Others have also pointed out its resemblance to the early works of Richard D. James (aka Aphex Twin). The band described Aphex Twin as an influence on their work at the time, though not specifically mentioning "Treefingers."
A slightly "extended" version of "Treefingers" appeared on the soundtrack CD of Christopher Nolan's film Memento (2001), though it was not actually heard in the film.
